Explore: Bighead Carp

The bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish native to East Asia, and is one of several Asian carps introduced

Famous Domestic Fish" (四大家鱼) together with bighead carp, black carp and grass carp. By weight, more silver carp are produced worldwide in aquaculture than

referring to the four East Asian species silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp (a.k.a. white amur) and black carp (a.k.a. black amur), which were introduced

nobilis (bighead carp). Common carp are native to both Eastern Europe and Western Asia, so they are sometimes called a "Eurasian" carp. Carp have long

used to catch silver carp, or, where legal, by snagging them by jerking a weighted treble hook through the water. Bighead carp cannot be shot from the

Asian carp are black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), and bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys

the black carp, silver carp, and bighead carp. Its meat is tender, with little bones. Many Chinese cuisine has grass carp as a featured dish, such as Cantonese

invertebrates such as snails, clams and mussels. Black carp, together with bighead carp, silver carp, and grass carp, make up the culturally important "four famous

The common carp (Cyprinus carpio), also known as European carp, Eurasian carp, or simply carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes

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